By RICK NOLAND
Assistant Sports Editor
CLEVELAND — This one had it all, and all of it was bad — lousy shooting, lousy passing, lousy officiating and a lousy crowd.
The Houston Rockets just happened to be a little less bad than the Cavaliers, which is why they came into Quicken Loans Arena and recorded their ninth straight [...]

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By ZACH JACKSON
Special to the Gazette
COPLEY — Amidst a wild postgame celebration, the best Alan Sheppard’s Wadsworth teammates could leave him was half a hot dog.
Tough crowd. Thanks to Sheppard’s late-game heroics, the Grizzlies survive to eat another day.
Sheppard’s 3-pointer from the corner with 6 seconds left provided the winning margin as the Grizzlies [...]

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By MARIA KACIK
Staff Writer
Summa Health System announced Monday it will partner with an organization of local doctors — Northeast Ohio Management Service Organization — to construct an ambulatory facility in Montville and Medina townships.
The organizations signed a letter of intent to construct and operate a 75,000-square-foot complex on 10 acres off state Route 18. The [...]

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By ALBERT GRINDLE
Staff Writer
The second stop on the road to regionals has come into view for the Wadsworth and Brunswick girls basketball teams and both face remarkably similar opponents.
Tonight at 5:45 p.m. the Grizzlies take on the Akron City Series champion — this time Kenmore — for the second straight season in the Akron Ellet Division I [...]

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By HANNAH SCHAEFER
Staff Writer
GUILFORD TWP. — Every Tuesday, a group of five local women carry on a tradition more than 40 years in the making, one stitch at a time.
The women of the Seville Senior Day Center meet at Guilford Township Hall every Tuesday morning to hand-stitch brightly colored comforters and quilts, eat lunch and [...]

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By MARIA KACIK
Staff Writer
WESTFIELD TWP. — Most of the audience members at Monday’s township trustees meeting were on their feet, applauding resident Karen Fisher.
Fisher, standing at the podium in the township hall, had just asked for support in her request for trustees to review their Jan. 25 decision to name a recently built access road [...]

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By ALLISON WOOD
Staff Writer
MEDINA — Prosecutors will not be able to use blood and urine samples taken from the man accused of killing a Brunswick girl with his vehicle at trial because Brunswick police did not follow proper procedures for storing evidence, court records show.
Robert Stankiewicz, 21, of Hinckley Township, is charged with four counts [...]

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Thomas E. Cumberledge Sr., 59, of Medina, passed away Monday, Feb. 18, 2008, in Medina.
He was born Jan. 28, 1949, in Gassaway, W.Va. He was a truck driver for S.B. Morabito Trucking. Mr. Cumberledge was a member of Freedom Baptist Church and Teamsters Local 436.
He is survived by his wife of 38 years, Faith (nee [...]

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Stella K. Fiser, 87, of Medina, passed away Sunday, Feb. 17, 2008, in Medina.
She was born Jan. 13, 1921, in Castalia, Ohio. Mrs. Fiser was a member of St. Matthew Lutheran Church. She was a homemaker and worked for Medina High School for five years as a cook.
She is survived by her sons, Gary W. [...]

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By RICK NOLAND
Assistant Sports Editor
CLEVELAND — Cavaliers coach Mike Brown wouldn’t mind if general manager Danny Ferry made a trade prior to the Thursday deadline, but he also likes the players he has now.
“We’ve shown we’re able to win ballgames,” Brown said Tuesday at Quicken Loans Arena prior to a game against the Houston Rockets. [...]

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